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Dr Stephen Ebbens is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield.
Dr Stephen Ebbens is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield.
Research interests include:
Research interests include:
Small scale autonomous swimming devices
Small scale autonomous swimming devices
Developing and investigating a wide range of miniaturised devices that can produce motion in fluid environments, with potential to enable healthcare applications in diagnostics and drug delivery.
Self-optimising manufacturing processes
Self-optimising manufacturing processes
Developing self-optimising coating processes to make structured materials with applications in optoelectronics, energy generation and storage.
News
News
February 2025 Myself, and my PhD student, Chris attended the final industry steering meeting for the EPSRC Responsive Manufacturing of High Value Thin to Thick films project, which received many positive comments from the industrial stake holders.
November 2024 I attended the Intelligent Soft Matter workshop and talked about our pH responsive swimmers work. This event was notable for it's ambition and interdisciplinary scope, and featured the use of various AI tools to aid networking, collaboration and future research paper and proposal generation.
October 2024 I welcomed a new PhD student, Ewan Hickling, to my research group. Ewan will be working on developing reactive inkjet printing for silk materials in collaboration with Dr David Gregory.
August 2024 My PhD student Chris and his PhD student colleague Jack Atkinson have been working with Ossila Ltd under their student writer program to make content for technical articles on thin film coating techniques, which are freely available online.
June 2024 My PhD students; Chris and Nur travelled to Bordeaux France for the European Student Colloid conference and shared exciting progress on manufacturing large area colloidal crystals and new understanding of the effect of active Janus particles on colloidal crystal formation.
March 2024 Myself, my PhD student Chris Passmore, Jack Atkinson, Prof. Jonathan Howse, Dr Andrew Campbell travelled to the Centre of Process Innovation to test out some of new thin film metrology methods and feedback control algorithms on pilot scale slot die coating equipment.
October 2023 Published a new paper in Advanced Science on the surprising motion of fully symmetrically catalytically active colloids.
January 2023 I welcomed a new PhD student, Nur Azali to my research group. Nur will be working on colloidal crystals with mixtures of active and passive particles.
October 2022 I welcomed a new PhD student, Chris Passmore, to my research group. Chris will be working on making high value coatings for energy storage and generation.
January 2022
I have just published a new paper in the Journal of Colloids and Interface Science (Open), describing printable motion sensors for water quality monitoring.
November 2021
In conjunction with Dr Caroline Evans, we have launched a IN-PART profile detailing the potential for stirring devices developed from a previous EPSRC fellowship to be used for a range of new applications.
October 2021
My PhD student Alice Kirvin passed her viva with minor corrections and published her first research paper in Materials Advances, reporting the ability to make rotating micron scale ellipsoidal swimming devices.
April 2021
My former PhD student Luke is now Dr Luke Price, having passed his viva and submitted the final version of his thesis 'Transition metal catalysts anchored to TiO2 nanoparticles by functionalised bipyridine ligands for the purpose of CO2 reduction'.
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